Just then, the lady slowly walked up to An Ran and spoke again.

This time, she stopped pretending to be close and adopted a condescending attitude, as if she were expounding the truth.

"Anran, you should understand me."

"You see, every advancement in medicine is built on sacrifice."

"Without extensive prior in vivo experiments, how can there be drug breakthroughs?"

"Without in-depth research on trauma, where would battlefield first aid techniques come from?"

"Isn't it worth sacrificing the entire population of an entire city to become a petri dish in order to conquer a global pandemic?"

The classic trolley problem.

"Tell me, Anran."

"Is it worth it to trade ten lives for the survival of one hundred?"

"Is it difficult to choose between the suffering of an entire ward and the peace of a city?"

"What is the value of sacrificing one mother's genes for the rebirth of a generation?"

She pressed on relentlessly, using grand concepts to try and drag An Ran into her pre-set logical trap, forcing An Ran to choose between "saving the minority" and "saving the majority".

An Ran's thoughts did indeed become chaotic at this moment.

She had just seen the horrific scenes in those wards and listened to the recordings left behind by her mother, Lin Liangyu.

More importantly, she witnessed firsthand how those unarmed patients in the chapel used their own flesh and blood to hold off the pursuers.

Sacrifice... is it sometimes truly unavoidable?

Once the thought popped into her head, it entwined her heart like a vine.

Her lips moved, and she was almost led away by the lady.

But at that moment, Chen Zheng's words suddenly echoed in her mind.

During a break in training, she asked a similar question. At that time, she had just come across the trolley problem on a short video platform and was still struggling to get over it.

"Instructor, if killing some people can save the majority, what should we choose?"

What was Chen Zheng's response at the time?

He didn't even look up; he just blew on the steam rising from the thermos.

"You need to learn to see things dialectically."

"Analyze specific issues in specific ways."

"Your question mentions killing a portion of the population, so what exactly would kill the majority?"

"If they are bad people, then punish them."

"If it's the law, then improve the law."

This simple truth, at this moment, struck like lightning, cleaving through the fog in An Ran's mind.

She suddenly raised her head, her gaze becoming sharp and resolute once more.

I refuse to answer your question.

"Because the question itself is wrong."

"The disaster you're talking about is one you created yourself."

"What you call sacrifice is something you impose on innocent people."

"The solution isn't to pick one of your options, but to completely eliminate the root cause of your problem!"

She took a step forward, looking directly into the lady's exposed eyes.

"I have one more question for you."

"Why is it that every time, those who are sacrificed for the majority are never the ones who make the decisions?"

This rhetorical question, like the sharpest knife, precisely pierced the core of the lady's logic.

This time, for the first time, the lady remained silent in front of An Ran.

A few seconds later, her voice rang out again, and it was clear that she was in a hurry.

"Innocent."

"The process is not important; the result is everything."

"Back then, your mother was eventually persuaded by me, and she chose to stay for a greater purpose."

"No." An Ran interrupted her directly, a hint of pity in her eyes, "Stop talking nonsense."

"If my mother truly agreed with your approach, she wouldn't have gone to such lengths to leave clues leading me here."

"She didn't do this to make me understand you, she did it to make me... kill you."

As she spoke, a confident smile finally appeared on An Ran's face.

"You're trying to bewitch me; you were wrong from the start."

"I'm a soldier trained by that man!"

The voice just fell.

boom!!!

A deafeningly loud thud came from the iron wall behind her.

The half-meter-thick alloy plate, strong enough to withstand artillery shells, bulged out visibly towards An Ran!

A huge fist print was imprinted in the center of the steel plate.

An Ran stared at the protruding iron plate and was startled at first.

Then, she gripped the gun handle tightly and took another step forward.

She stared at the lady's white mask, which had no facial features, her eyes filled with disdain.

"Tie innocent people to the operating table and bleed them dry."

"Locking a child who doesn't even have shoes to a hospital bed."

"You call this medical progress?"

"Stop trying to cram this cliché multiple-choice question into my brain."

"Your hypocritical high-handed attitude just disgusts me."

"If you truly want to save lives, if you truly want to pursue progress, then go and slaughter those noble classes who profit from human suffering!"

"Instead of hiding underground where there is no sunlight, and only striking the weakest when they are at their weakest."

The lady stood there, silent.

After saying these words, An Ran felt a surge of relief in her chest.

She no longer wavered about whether or not to give herself up in exchange for the truth.

Because the other party was not a suitable person to sit in the transaction from beginning to end.

There was a two-second silence in the underground space.

A sharp, cold laugh came from beneath the lady's mask.

"A fool who doesn't know his own death."

"You think you're on the moral high ground."

"You are just as foolish as your stubborn mother."

As she spoke, the lady raised her right hand, which was covered by her wide sleeves, and held a red and black miniature controller tightly in her palm.

"Lin Liangyu lost so completely back then because of this ridiculous idea."

"You all always think you can save the world."

"In fact, he can't even save himself."

"You're harder to handle than she is, so there's no point in continuing to communicate with you."

"Since you can't make the choice, then I'll choose for you."

As she spoke, she pressed a button on the remote control.

"The calming gas will fill this room soon."

"Close your eyes and go to sleep. When you wake up, you'll just be another '07' continuation on the lab table."

Upon hearing this, An Ran immediately held her breath.

He was about to raise his gun and shoot the other man in the thigh.

Suddenly, a loud bang rang out.

boom.

Another deep fist mark appeared on the massive alloy wall.

Then came the third, the fourth, the fifth...

Each impact was accompanied by a violent tremor of the ground.

After just a few punches.

Click.

A huge crack appeared directly in the center of the alloy armor plate.

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